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Kleiner Perkins Invests in LinuxCare

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-to-the-mainstream dept.

An anonymous reader writes " It's official now. Kleiner Perkins has blessed the Linux movement. Nobody will ever be fired for deploying Linux. " Kleiner Perkins is one of the VCs behind Amazon and Netscape.

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  1. VC and free software by tgeller · · Score: 2
    A little story.

    About a year ago, I was representing a company that does support for free software, and managed to get a meeting with a very famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist (who shall remain nameless). I asked them about the likelihood that VC would invest in free software, and they responded something to the effect of, "If there's no proprietary content, we can't see how a company could make enough money from the model to satisfy us."

    I just sent them a "told you so" message. God, that feels good. :) :) :) God bless the Linux community for making it happen!

    --Tom

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    Tom Geller
  2. There's a glowing reference by Gerund · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure we should sing and dance about the endorsement of the Venture Capitalists behind Amazon. If I were a Venture Capitalist, I'd be pretty iffy about that company. Currently the best way to support amazon is to not shop there, since they still lose money on every sale.

    Still, it's nice to see rich people supporting Linux